Help! Why’s my plant growing so slow?

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I’ve been growing outdoors since May 18th I started them on April 18th any idea why my plants only 1ft tall bushy with many bud sites but really small. I have her in the ground with many soil amendments along with that I’m feeding her liquid ferts from 2017 (Remo trio with Magnifical) which is why I amended the soil incase they went bad she is very healthy though but extremely small at least compared to my previous grow weather is great also nothing but sun here some rain in June mostly at night.
She should be about 5/6ft tall by now could it be that strain? It’s a new one, the strain is Gods Glue M.O.C (2different gorilla glues crossed with each other) could it be my ph? If so why is she so healthy? Or maybe my ferts are no good and she’s just growing without but I doubt that as I’ve done that before and they were about 3week old 3 months into that grow.
P.s. the rest of my gardens small also so it might not be the strain except this one tomato that’s 4ft but it was 1ft when I planted her.

Please help thanks in advance

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BrewersToker

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Where are you located? If you're in the midwest, this was a historically bad spring for planting anything. I usually compare my cannabis to my tomatoes, in terms of maturing and vegetative phase. They are fairly similar. Tomatoes are also at least 2 weeks behind, and corn is closer to 3 weeks behind.

This is July 4 last year:
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This is today:
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Based on the perfect spring I experienced last season, versus this spring, I am about 1.5 weeks behind optimum growth. Plenty of time to catch up, especially now that I can regularly feed, am better able to control watering and the sun is working in my favor, finally.
 
CanadianJim

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Everything is behind this year. For just about everybody it seems. I wonder if anyone has studied whether or not the sun's cycles affect the way plants grow? We're just coming out of a solar minimum cycle, and there was a reverse polarity sunspot recently.
 
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I’m in the northeast. I was thinking weather but wasn’t sure this June had a lot less rain than the last 2 years. Not sure if it was something I was doing, I thought is was for sure the soil ph cause i don’t test it. 2016 was my best grow my plants were 3x bigger than this year but July has so much sun right now which made me doubt it being a bad weather thing. Last 2 years raining almost every other day. Anyhow thanks for your response it helped out a lot
 
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CanadianJim said:
Interesting, however the entire article read like a series of thesis statements at the beginning of an essay. I'll have to start looking for some details.
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Yeah never heard of this before I’m a newbie but its very interesting I have to find some experiments using the same strains of various plants and strictly the sun in a controlled environment like a greenhouse but that’s going to be hard
 
CanadianJim

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Citizen science time. If you're not living in Canada or a legal state just tell the cops it's a science experiment! That'll work, right?
 
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CanadianJim said:
Citizen science time. If you're not living in Canada or a legal state just tell the cops it's a science experiment! That'll work, right?
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I don’t think so you’ll be better off telling them its not weed lol at least in my opinion if it’s not legal the best thing is gurilla growing
 
Booger mama

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Top_Shelf_Indica said:
Yeah never heard of this before I’m a newbie but its very interesting I have to find some experiments using the same strains of various plants and strictly the sun in a controlled environment like a greenhouse but that’s going to be hard
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I planted two batches of harlequin 1 in mid-april the other in mid-may. They're both being raised in my Greenhouse with all the sides open to let in direct sun. The batch started in April are now 5 foot tall & still growing , no flower yet, but the batch started in May are only 18" tall and started flowering last week! It's been a weird year!
 
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Booger mama said:
I planted two batches of harlequin 1 in mid-april the other in mid-may. They're both being raised in my Greenhouse with all the sides open to let in direct sun. The batch started in April are now 5 foot tall & still growing , no flower yet, but the batch started in May are only 18" tall and started flowering last week! It's been a weird year!
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I started mine in April got it in soil on the 19th then put them outdoors on May 19th it’s only 20in or so tall hasn’t flowered yet from the looks of one journal I’m thinking she’ll start mid August. I can’t figure it out I overwatered her and she was showing signs of it but I got her in ground and she still alive today so any overwatering damage done would’ve been recovered by now. Maybe malnourished or soil ph issue but no signs saying she isn’t healthy
 
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Top_Shelf_Indica said:
I’ve been growing outdoors since May 18th I started them on April 18th any idea why my plants only 1ft tall bushy with many bud sites but really small. I have her in the ground with many soil amendments along with that I’m feeding her liquid ferts from 2017 (Remo trio with Magnifical) which is why I amended the soil incase they went bad she is very healthy though but extremely small at least compared to my previous grow weather is great also nothing but sun here some rain in June mostly at night.
She should be about 5/6ft tall by now could it be that strain? It’s a new one, the strain is Gods Glue M.O.C (2different gorilla glues crossed with each other) could it be my ph? If so why is she so healthy? Or maybe my ferts are no good and she’s just growing without but I doubt that as I’ve done that before and they were about 3week old 3 months into that grow.
P.s. the rest of my gardens small also so it might not be the strain except this one tomato that’s 4ft but it was 1ft when I planted her.

Please help thanks in advance

NOT MY PLANT (just for reference) mines in ground



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Top_Shelf_Indica said:
I’ve been growing outdoors since May 18th I started them on April 18th any idea why my plants only 1ft tall bushy with many bud sites but really small. I have her in the ground with many soil amendments along with that I’m feeding her liquid ferts from 2017 (Remo trio with Magnifical) which is why I amended the soil incase they went bad she is very healthy though but extremely small at least compared to my previous grow weather is great also nothing but sun here some rain in June mostly at night.
She should be about 5/6ft tall by now could it be that strain? It’s a new one, the strain is Gods Glue M.O.C (2different gorilla glues crossed with each other) could it be my ph? If so why is she so healthy? Or maybe my ferts are no good and she’s just growing without but I doubt that as I’ve done that before and they were about 3week old 3 months into that grow.
P.s. the rest of my gardens small also so it might not be the strain except this one tomato that’s 4ft but it was 1ft when I planted her.

Please help thanks in advance

NOT MY PLANT (just for reference) mines in ground



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Honestly for a month old your doing great good things take times and sometimes its a illusion imo multiple tops/right nodding is better it may look smaller but you'll be able to train more intense over time and by flower your shit will be poppin off
 
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Logat22 said:
Honestly for a month old your doing great good things take times and sometimes its a illusion imo multiple tops/right nodding is better it may look smaller but you'll be able to train more intense over time and by flower your shit will be poppin off
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It’s been 3 months and I hope your right but last time I grew they were 9ft tall by July 9th fluke maybe I don’t know all I do know is this ones way smaller but she stretched a lot this last week and with some grow journals I saw she should produce a little over a lb
 
CanadianJim

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Last year's weather was just about perfect for everything. Our tomatoes topped out at over 7 feet and produced more than we could eat, my hot peppers were between 4 and 6 feet tall, and I still have some bhut jolokias and orange habs in the freezer, and a string of dried ring-of -fires. This year our tomatoes are under 3 feet tall, and my orange habs are putting out the little tiny things in the pic. Couldn't even get the ring-of-fire peppers started.
I wasn't growing outdoors last year, but my neighbour was. His plant was over 6 feet by this time, this year he's growing the same strain it's just under 4. Brewers is in the mid west, I'm in Southern Ontario, and you're in the northeast, that's all pretty close, for North America anyway.
 
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CanadianJim said:
Last year's weather was just about perfect for everything. Our tomatoes topped out at over 7 feet and produced more than we could eat, my hot peppers were between 4 and 6 feet tall, and I still have some bhut jolokias and orange habs in the freezer, and a string of dried ring-of -fires. This year our tomatoes are under 3 feet tall, and my orange habs are putting out the little tiny things in the pic. Couldn't even get the ring-of-fire peppers started.
I wasn't growing outdoors last year, but my neighbour was. His plant was over 6 feet by this time, this year he's growing the same strain it's just under 4. Brewers is in the mid west, I'm in Southern Ontario, and you're in the northeast, that's all pretty close, for North America anyway.
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I know what you mean last year everything grew pretty full by this time and sorry to hear about this years crop. I thought it was a great year it’s been very sunny not much rain and when it did it was at night she stretched a lot this last week a few inches every day now she looks real bushy
 
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Maybe a little over a pound
CanadianJim said:
Thanks. It's not all bad, my indica is bushy as all hell, and over 5 feet now despite being topped 3 times.
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i only have the one I want to clone this one lower branch I should prune and make some fem seeds maybe get some Bruce banner and make Bruce banner x gorilla glue next year but I’m not sure if she’ll root, clone gel would be a waste of cash so I want to try the plain water method
 
CanadianJim

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Never used it, but you shouldn't listen to me about cones unless you want to kill them. I can use someone else's surefire method and they'll just sit there for a week then one morning I'll wake up and they're dead. People have watched me. I did it right. The one they did to show me survives, all mine die. Like magic, but sucky.
 
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